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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Man's Chief End TO GLORIFY GOD.Man's Chief End TO GLORIFIE GOD.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Motive, It will be a great Comfort in a dying hour, to think we have glorified God in our Lives; it was Christ's Comfort before his Death, Joh. 17.3. I have glorified thee on earth. At the hour of Death all your earthly Comforts will vanish, if you think how Rich you have been, what Pleasures you have had on Earth, this will be so far from comforting you, that it will but torment you the more: What is one the better for an Estate that is spent? But now to have Conscience telling you, that you have glorified God on Earth, what sweet Comfort and Peace will this let into your Soul! how will this make you long for Death! The Servant that hath been all day working in the Vineyard, longs till Evening comes when he shall receive his Pay. They who have lived and brought no Glory to God, how can they think of dying with Comfort; they cannot expect an Harvest that never sowed any Seed: How can they expect Glory from God, that never brought any Glory to him? O in what Horror will they be at Death! the Worm of Conscience will gnaw their Souls, before the Worms are gnawing their Bodies.
1 Motive, It will be a great Comfort in a dying hour, to think we have glorified God in our Lives; it was Christ's Comfort before his Death, Ioh. 17.3. I have glorified thee on earth. At the hour of Death all your earthly Comforts will vanish, if you think how Rich you have been, what Pleasures you have had on Earth, this will be so far from comforting you, that it will but torment you the more: What is one the better for an Estate that is spent? But now to have Conscience telling you, that you have glorified God on Earth, what sweet Comfort and Peace will this let into your Soul! how will this make you long for Death! The Servant that hath been all day working in the Vineyard, longs till Evening comes when he shall receive his Pay. They who have lived and brought no Glory to God, how can they think of dying with Comfort; they cannot expect an Harvest that never sowed any Seed: How can they expect Glory from God, that never brought any Glory to him? O in what Horrour will they be at Death! the Worm of Conscience will gnaw their Souls, before the Worms are gnawing their Bodies.